Kreutzer Sonata

I have received many letters from strangers asking me to explain in simple and clear words what I think of the subject of the story which I wrote under the title of the Kreutzer Sonata. I shall try to do so, that is, in a few words to express, so far as is possible, the essence of what I had intended to convey by my story, and of the conclusions at which one may arrive from it.